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ITS: JAYCACIA!!!!! TYAYYYYY!

AND U PUT AROIROA IN 2!!!! UR THEBEST!!!!

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(( OMG, BBQ? WTF! {; D ))

OMG it iz ZO KEWL how u put pick2res int he story like tha!!!! How do u do that??? This shoes, OMG, i want sum!!!

Uodate uptade uptade!!!

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(( Funny story: I read the previous chapter with links in it right after coming across a weird site redirect that made me think I had a trojan, the description of which suggested random links were another symptom to watch out for. After thoroughly checking my computer, I realized they only showed up in that post, and then I got the joke. ^_^; Srsly, those shoes tho. Those could blind someone. ~Neshomeh ))

I always thought The Offspring's "You're Gonna Go Far Kid" matched the first Mistborn novel pretty well. I may be crazy.

In news for Twistey and any programmers in the audience, Fabien Sanglard has just released his Black Book of Wolf3D. So if you ever wanted to peer into the guts of Wolfie, you at least have a flashlight to do it with now. Given, this was not a book written for The Rest of Us by any means. I would suggest downloading the preview first to see if you can read it. I, for one, am very intimidated and doubt I will be able to...

Article here

You dont imagine ho ard it iz tou find pipol hou laïke storiz end séi it, not laïke this bad gai hou commented before. A'll trai tou fink eubaout eu sikouel leiteur, promiz!

P.S.: je suis francai, pas japonnais.

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Battle of Wizna where the Polish Army held out against the might of the Wehrmarcht for three days in what is sometimes called the Polish Thermopylae.

The Polish soldiers were outnumbered well over 40:1 and they held on until they ran out of ammunition.

Always remember a fallen soldier. Always remember fathers and sons at war.

Novastorme

...I vote permaban. Because there's no fixing this situation with any amount of excusemongering, let's get that right.

Talullah Greenslevs still belongs to JayBird!!

I wanted to cry while Tallullah was helping me into my wedding dress. but that would ruin my makeup so I held it in.

My dress was twenty lairs of tulle and satin and the top of it was covered in lots of diamonds so I shone whenever I moved! My makeup was blue and green and gold and matched my eyes perfectly.

My hair was braided in lots of fancy braids and I was wearing my white diamond and white gold elvish tiara that matched my gown.

It was going to be my special day~

"Jess you look perfect!", Talullah said happily and hugged me.

"You look good too", I said. She was wearing a pink one sleeve and rinestone gown that matched my boqet of pink roses.

My gown was old, it was Selenes aka moms which that I fit into perfectly. And the tiara was new my father Elrond had it made for my coronation as princess of Rivendel when I turned 16. My makeup was blue and my sparkly rainbow diamond shoes were borrowed from tallullah who had over 200 pairs. She was wearing pink strappy heels with a bow on the side.

We hugged and laughed and talked about the honeymood. Numie and mewere going to go to a private tropical island his parents who were very rich owned.

Then I heard the music start and I almost fainted I was so nervous and excited!

AN: OMG Can you believe the big day is finally happening?!?! Me neither!!! I hope u guys liked the pics of the wedding!

Reading the article, there's a lot of 'obviously's, and no evidence. This is the picture that accompanies the article, which purports to interpret two (uncited!) lines of Voynich script. In order to do so, he's separated out the lines, and then freely interpreted the imagined letters as Latin shorthand.

He's also interpreting the same symbol as multiple different words. Check out the one that looks like a swirly comma (last character in the first row on the image); in the first two words of the last line, that is interpreted as both 'cum' and 'con', interpreted as cum and confundo. Remarkable!

Furthermore, he interprets ~80 characters as representing ~54 Latin words; he's extrapolating 'Aromaticus' from 'AR' (which doesn't look a thing like 'AR'); and his numbers would make the entire manuscript well over a hundred thousand words, all written in illegible shorthand. A shorthand that uses a mere 25 characters to convey... well, according to the sample, the same words over and over. I suppose that's fair. De radicus seminis ana J, indeed.

Nah. Call me again when it's peer-reviewed rather than appearing in the Times Literary Supplement.

hS

-My Immortal is a complex, layered and meta work of art with a sentimental backstory.
-The Voynich Manuscript is a...plagiarized medieval gynecology book, pretty much.

Welcome to 2017, folks.

Yeah, it was really more fun not knowing. I mean, I am all for the pursuit of knowledge, but the mystery was far more engaging than the solution.

Anyone up for playing a game of Voynich, as proposed by hS?

Kitty Eden posted this in the chat last night.

The Voynich Manuscripts?

Solved.

—doctorlit

(No news this week; Mandos take the news, it's all miserable.)

Essentially what it says on the tin: songs which weren't written with a scifi story in mind, but are clearly perfect fits. Here are the ones that spring to my mind:

To The Moon and Back, by Savage Garden

Sample lyrics:

Mama never loved her much and
Daddy never keeps in touch
That's why she shies away from human affection, but
Somewhere in a private place
She packs her bags for outer space
And now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot to come

And she'll say to him...

I would fly you to the moon and back
If you'll be, if you'll be my baby
I've got a ticket for a world where we belong
So would you be my baby?

I heard this on the radio yesterday morning and immediately had the idea for this thread. It connected itself instantly to Anne McCaffrey's Ship Who Sang/Brain & Brawn series (which are about spaceships with two 'crew' - a human captain, and a severely physically disabled 'shell person' acting as the ship's computer). In particular, my mind got hung up on The Ship Who Searched, and Tia/AH-1033, who very much fits the 'abandoned child' motif of the song, as well as literally hunting for the right human partner to fly to the stars with.

Carried by Honor, by Heather Dale

Sample lyrics:

When I was a child I thought about nothing
But valour and glory and victory's might
I started with little and built from it something
I thought I would need when the time came to fight

I forged my sword from the steel of my kingdom
I crafted my shield from the love of my kin
I'm carried by honour and dreams of a future
Made real with each battle I win.

Okay, it was sort of inevitable that this would jump straight to the Honor Harrington books, given the title... but it fits alarmingly well with the theme of the books - family, friendship, fighting to secure the future. The connection really clicked for me when I remembered that Queen Empress Elizabeth of the Star Empire of Manticore was given the name 'Soul of Steel' by the treecats... 'from the steel of my kingdom', indeed.

(This song was an exclusive reward for backers of the Queens of Avalon musical; it's mighty hard to find anything about it online.)

Say Something, by A Great Big World/Christina Aguilera

Sample lyrics:

And I am feeling so small
It was over my head
I know nothing at all
And I will stumble and fall
I'm still learning to love
Just starting to crawl

Say something, I'm giving up on you
I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you
Anywhere, I would've followed you
Say something, I'm giving up on you

From the first time I heard it, this was a perfect fit for a very specific scifi story that as far as I know doesn't exist. It's essentially the Downer Ending version of The Martian - a desperate scramble to rescue a stranded crew/ship, where all of humanity's efforts just... aren't enough.

Even more specifically, I'm imagining an AU film where NASA noticed the damage to the space shuttle Columbia... once it was already in orbit. There is an article about how, through sheer fluke, it would have been just possible to save the crew - provided everything went right. Well, in my film, it didn't, because space is actually hard.

(I mean, in theory you could use it if they managed to save most of the crew but not the one we've been focussing on - a la Armageddon. Maybe that's more viable?)

Hello, by Adele

Sample lyrics:

Hello, can you hear me?
I'm in California dreaming about who we used to be
When we were younger and free
I've forgotten how it felt before the world fell at our feet
There's such a difference between us
And a million miles

Hello from the other side
I must've called a thousand times
To tell you I'm sorry
For everything that I've done
But when I call you never
Seem to be home

Hello from the outside...

"A million miles". That's about three times the distance from the Earth to the Moon - or just about exactly the distance to Lagrange points 1 and 2, the points on the line between the sun and earth where satellites can be placed 'stationary' in space.

This is very clearly a song from someone who's living on orbit, at one of the Lagrange points, and radioing back to Earth (from their California-themed holodeck or something, or maybe they're on California Orbital). "The world fell at our feet". "Hello from the outside." And that's clearly the plot of one of those classic SF novels - a Heinlein, maybe? Or a Bradbury? I'm not sure which story it is, but I'm positive there's a story which fits this song perfectly.

(Alternately, 'a million miles is the difference between failure and a new chance', but the song doesn't fit that story. It's still a charming expression, though.)

So that's mine. What're yours?

hS

A/N: NO REVUEWS?!?!?!!? comon ppl!!1

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LUCKILY just as Morana was about to do some bad things (A/N: yewll have to imganine them your'e sefl), the console played a tune that meant it was time to go to their first class. So Tallulah and Jessaminthe walked down the corridor while Morana stalked behind them, until they found the BBQ Courtyard (A/N: ical it taht b/c Jay an Acacia had a barbiecue tehre that one tiem so now i Imigine its' offisialy cald that) where they found all the other students at Tofu Hop waiting. "Hi everyone, how are you, and also is this the class for How To Be The Best Agent?" asked Tallulah.

"Hi," said Terry Pratchett (A/N ANOTTER of xXth0th999Xx 's OCss!!!1 seh is SOO TALTENED!!), "I am fine, and yes, it is."

"That's cool," said Tallulah, as she waved at the other students she recognised like Captain Deadly and Ruby and Kitty (A/N :YES i remimberd they wer in tihs.). "So where is the teacher?"

She will be here very soon, Tally, said the Sunflower Official who was also there. Now, I know you can restrain yourself, but I want everyone else to remember that tackling your teachers is frowned upon unless you're in a consensual relationship with them (A/N: red taht somewehre, not sur waht it mees buti geuss its' improtante?!).

"Okay," said all the students, except Morana because she was evil. And Tallulah was going to point out to the Sunflower Official (who she would have called Sunny), but AT THAT MOMENT a portal (A/N: oneo f the porper pink ons) opened and who should step out but...

... a 5 foot girl with blonde hair dyed dark red-blown and blue eyes. She had black boots and a black shirt that showed her stomach, and also a skirt.

"I don't know who that is," whispered Jessaminthe to Tallulah, "should I know who that is?"

"Hi!" said the girl, waving. "I'm Aurora E. Lorra, and don't worry, I'm not your teacher, I'm just here to check that everything's okay."

Everything is okay, the Sunflower Official told her. We made sure to tie Acacia back up after the first meeting so she can't attack anyone.

"Okay good," said Aurora, as she stuck her head back through the portal. "It's okay to come through!"

"Thank you, my friend," said a voice, and ALL THE STUDENTS gasped when they heard it (even Morana), because who should step out of the portal next but...

THE ONE AND ONLY JAYCACIA THORNBYRD!!!!!

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A/N: i knooooooooooh!!!!!! kk so i know i Havn'et finised 'Darkheart & Lightheart' yte, but tihs tackes plase after taht.. neway i couldn ressit bringe Jaycacia inot tish tory two

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"Jay."

"Acy."

"Don't call me Acy." Acacia Byrd sat down opposite her friend and took a sip of her coffee. "Hi."

Jay Thorntree blinked at her. "Did you just steal my coffee?"

"Well, you didn't order me one yet." Acacia snagged a biscuit from the open packet and munched on it. "I miss junk food. Rome doesn't know how to do it properly." She wiped the crumbs away on the back of her hand. "Anyway, how's things?"

"Kind of rotten." Jay tapped her fingers on the newspaper. "It's all doom and gloom and occasional superstorms. What about you?"

"About what you'd expect," Acacia said with a shrug. "The Emperor's found a new war to play with, so everyone's rattling on about how great conquering things is."

Jay sighed. "Some things never change." She swiped her mug back from Acacia and drained it. "So what brings you to these par- uh, years?"

Acacia tugged a sheaf of printouts from her bag and dropped it on top of Jay's paper. "What do you think?"

"Ah." Jay tilted her head to the side, trying to read. "More of that thing where you're an evil baby?"

"Nope; better." Acacia tapped the title. "She's ripping off Miss Cam now."

"... an OFU? Seriously? Does this girl have no shame?"

"Yep - yep - and three times nope."

((Sometimes you just have to shoehorn Jaycacia in so you have an excuse to use Jay and Acy. What can I say? ~hS))

((We can even make the styles and storyline conflict in places. It'll be awesome.))

I don't like doing this, and honestly, I ultimately did not decide on this because of the disruptions that Bram has caused. I honestly think this might be the healthiest possible option for them. I feel, if any non-permanent ban was issued again, Bramandin would be waiting for that ban to be over, and would not stop thinking about the point at which they would be allowed back in. This would not be good for them, and I feel like the only way to prevent them from waiting outside of the metaphorical door is to slam it shut and lock it permanently behind them. So, I am sorry, but I am voting for a permanent ban.

1) Unspecified length ban - 5
Votes: The Triumvirate, Granz the Ice Cream Monarch, Novastorme, Zingenmir, CodeCom

2) Ban until December - 1
Votes: Bramandin

3) Permaban - 19
Votes: Huinesoron, Phobos, Iximaz, Mikelus, Tomash, Matt Cipher, Hardric, World-Jumper, Larfen, KittyEden, PoorCynic, S.M.F., doctorlit, Scapegrace, 1visible, SkarmorySilver, Neshomeh, Delta Juliette, Thoth

4) Abstain - 1
Abstentions: Hieronymus Graubart

I must have missed you while I was counting.

-Phobos

That should be six votes in group one. I'm not changing my vote, but I would like it counted.

~Z